Lack Of Poverty In Schools

Imagine being in elementary school again. Not any elementary school, a low quality, high population, high poverty area of the U.S. the child then arrives at their elementary school to find no lunch because the federal programming couldn’t afford this school, plus the child didn’t have breakfast because their parents couldn 't afford it. That is if their parents are even around. Then the child arrives to class where they go through the day starving. This story is why we should halve the military funds of the U.S. and put it towards education and schools for children, because then it effects their learning because they’re hungry, or because they didn’t receive a proper learning environment in the past like an over populated class room. Finally, the day is over and the child then goes home to either a foster care or possibly a decent apartment. This continues till the child graduates from …show more content…
because of these cuts that are affecting children including books, writing utensils, lab supplies, and other major components to learn in a class. Some schools in this country don 't have any sport supplies like jerseys, fields, courts, practice supplies, drinks, and other necessary things for a school sports team to have. The biggest reason for all this is because of the budget the schools. Poverty doesn 't just affect the students as the schools are also affected by this. Budget cuts have been creating problems for public schools from less supplies, teachers, workers, and classrooms. Teachers also have a great amount of problems with teaching including not enough text books, lesson supplies, chalk/smart boards, and sometimes even desks. Especially because of the major increase of classroom sizes across the U.S. Schools across the country are reaching their school size limits which are creating way too large classes for the teachers to teach efficiently. This could all be fixed or at least lessened by the military